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SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
Course Introduction
1 Wealth, values, and human nature  
Personal and Professional Practice
2 The reality Introductory individual paper due
3 A question of character  
4 Commitments Team paper 1 due
5 Reports from the field: Professional panel discussion  
Corporate Social Responsibility
6 Definitions and strategies Team paper 2 due
7 Clash of values Team paper 3 due
8 Constructing the global marketplace  
9 Corporate culture and individual responsibility Team paper 4 due
The Purpose of a Corporation
10 Beginnings  
11 A new corporate life? Team paper 5 due
12 A critique of capital  
Conclusions
13 Next steps Final individual paper due